I’ll have to deal with his decisions in the Senate, which is a federal, not a state-Level, position. So, yes, it does impact me and his “Bipartisan” bullshit is a really huge warning. Anyway, why do you think he can beat Cornyn if he couldn’t beat the objectively odious Ted Cruz? Texas should probably have a Hispanic Senate candidate rather that a proven loser.
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What pissed me off about the statement Perez put out about not having a climate focused debate was that if any candidate did attend a third party debate focused on climate they would not be invited to future DNC debates.
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We finished flipping our state legislatures this past mid term. We’ve been becoming more reliably blue since the influx of millennials in the early 2010’s. To look at the electoral map of the state, it reads a lot like the electoral map of the USA. Lots of red, but it’s in all the places where no one lives. Hickenlooper running would be helpful, there aren’t a lot of state Dems to run with name recognition.
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Yes. That is the Biden establishment for you. They need to be removed.
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What gets tricky is when you like part of a post and you dislike another part. You cannot half-like a post.
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I forbore, assuming Tena was referring to fucking winning tickets.
There’s actually an amazing compendium of all the women who’ve stood as candidates for P or VP on wikipedia, starting with Victoria Woodhull in 1872 running for the Equal Rights Party, with Frederick Douglass as running mate (hey, I hear he’s been doing an amazing job, lately…).
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And any one of them could lead to Pete Buttigieg as VP, so good on that too, though I have to admit I am currently tending to Warren. This is basically the only place where I comment, but I try to read comments elsewhere, just to see what people are thinking, and I was surprised the WaPo was full of people proposing Warren/Buttigieg. @littlegirlblue too
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Ya’ think he’ll make the threshhold of support to appear in the debates? I sure hope so - I’d tune in for that!
Well, Clinton/Kaine won. By a lot!
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Under an imaginary Constitution…
I don’t suppose the candidates are going to argue that climate change isn’t real and doesn’t need to be dealt with.
Maybe, instead of a debate, the DNC could have a Round Table Discussion on TV about climate change, including a few scientific specialists to explain what is happening and may happen SOON, not in a hundred years.
I think it could get good ratings- everyone is interested.
On the other hand “Single Issue” debates is actually a pretty good idea. A more in-depth discussion of various important issues would be quite interesting.
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Every fucking ticket not. Every fucking administration yes.
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Bennet is Colorado’s other senator. Hick has said he prefers to have an executive position in government , rather than be the legislature.
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It’s important to inform people of what they can expect in the near future, not 100 years from now. Climate change is already causing serious problems in the United States, and no doubt in the rest of the planet (including Russia with their huge forests burning and their Siberian permafrost melting).
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Climate Change may well be the most important issue today and Perez says no debate. Who the hell does he think he is?
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Sometimes I suspect the leaders of the Democratic party are not very smart.
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He’s the head of the fundraising arm of the Democratic Party. Inslee or Hick can always drop out of the race and have Town Hall’s across the country on the subject so dear to them.
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Has there ever been a debate among Presidential candidates that was restricted to one topic? I seem to recall some broad categories, like “foreign affairs” or “domestic stuff,” but nothing narrower than that.
Trees don’t vote
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But “there will be only One winner”. 
I expect the rest of them will still be out there kicking butt.